Many of the tick-based periodicities provide a Fresh Start option within the periodicity control. These periodicities include Tickbars, Volume bars, Rangebars, Renko, PNF, etc. When fresh start is available, you will see a Fresh Start checkbox at the bottom of the periodicity control as you see below:
Periodicity is defined as the character of being periodic; the tendency to recur at regular intervals. Applied to market data analysis and Investor/RT in particular, the periodicity of a chart relates to the manner by which the periodic intervals of market data are determined. All the trading within an interval is defined as a bar, each bar having an open price, high, low, close and volume of trading during the interval. This tutorial presents the extensive range of periodicities available in Investor/RT. Periodicities are grouped into three categories: time dependent, volume dependent, and price dependent.
Released: Sept 25, 2012
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Let's assume for our example that you would like to set the box size to $0.25 for stocks trading under $5, $0.50 to stocks trading between $5 and $20, and to $1.00 for stocks trading over $20. The following scan will accomplish this.
To display a slide show of Instruments, open a QuotePage containing those Instruments and on the QuotePage Toolbar, select the Slideshow Icon as shown below:
Manipulating Bar and Candle Width This video demonstrates the process.
Yes. Open your preference window for the chart (double-clicking in horizontal scale at bottom of chart will get you there). In the "General" tab, you’ll find the “Pixels/Bar” setting, which controls the number of pixels allocated to each bar. Instead of a single number, you can manually enter text in the following format:
X:Y
There are two methods for doing this. Both are pretty simple and straightforward. There is the manual method documented below. There is also an automated method: right-click in chart and choose "Scrub Data". Start with a light scrub and see if that solves the problem. If not, you can either try a heavier scrub or the manual method below. There is a button on the chart toolbar labeled "Edit/Delete Bar/Tick Data" (7th from bottom on right column). It's the black candle with the red X through it.
There are actually multiple ways to do multiple periodicities.
Let's use the specific example above of overlaying a 5-minute stochastics on a 1-minute chart. Let's further assume that we are specifically after the "Fast %D" component of that 5-minute stochastics.
Using Mixed Periodicity Data Indicator (MPD)
Once solution (and probably the most popular solution now days) would be to use the Mixed Periodicity (MPD) indicator. You can access additional information on MPD at: